Dale Markowitz

Where does one see The Divine Comedy in this day and age

🤓💻 sounds fun!

@nikitanamjoshi.bsky.social

two years of The Austin Salon ✨ with @dalequark.bsky.social
10 evenings spent discussing psychology, neuroscience, food equity, primatology, friendship, ai, and most of all community 🤍

I’ll be there! But the link is a little confusing.

Are you normally a pantser or a plotter?

So cool! Congratulations!

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MAGICIANS+INCEPTION
Felix is an inept psychic who’s unable to maintain physical touch with anyone. His loner days end when he joins a lucid dreams based campus sleep study. Here, he meets an odd crew of coed psychics who protect the dream realm from a soul-stealing rogue. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #SF #A

ink drawing of Jak Sterzand, a teenage boy, crawling towards the viewer in a ventilation or maintenance shaft type tunnel. His name and title of the book JAK STERZAND above him, and underneath in smaller letters, the subtitle: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT All in black and white

TREASURE PLANET×THE EXPANSE
A bookworm dreams of escape from a pirate-run space station. With his friend, a tech genius, he finds an ancient wrist computer tied to his family and a legendary lost starship. As they seek answers, so does a notorious captain.
#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #YA #SF #M

Cover for Grim Portents featuring a skeleton hand gripping a feather, emerging from a flaming book over a maze

"I always told myself it wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, the mind playing tricks. It was just a shadow. But now the monster had been given a name, an identity. It was real." BILL BAKER WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO MARRY THE WOMAN HE LOVES, BUT WHEN HIS WEDDING IS INTERRUPTED BY A RAMPAGING HELL-BEAST, HIS LIFE IS THROWN INTO DISARRAY. DESPERATE FOR A SECOND CHANCE, HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SET HIS FUTURE BACK ON TRACK. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF A SOUL-COLLECTING REAPER NAMED SONNY, HE MUST UNCOVER WHO IS RELEASING MONSTERS FROM HELL, IN ORDER TO EARN BACK THE LIFE THAT WAS STOLEN FROM HIM AND PREVENT THE ONCOMING END OF DAYS. FACED WITH THE CHOICE BETWEEN WHAT IS RIGHT, AND WHAT IS EASY, BILL MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE ALL HE HOLDS DEAR FOR ONE LAST SHOT AT LIFE.

Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan.

Grim Portents

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a demon on his wedding day. With the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of

#luckypit #popuppit #popuppita #A #F #Hu #H

A photo collage that features a woman wearing a crown, a college campus, a hand playing the guitar, piano keys, and a pair of bloody knuckles

A photo that reads: Crowned In Light A literary agent's guide to the first book in the Crowned Series As 85k word Urban Speculative Romance/Romantasy First three books are finished, edited, and ready to query! This one has it all! - Magical Realism - Slow Burn - Found Family - Gods and Goddesses - Music Heavy - Soul Mates / Past Lives - Strong Female Friendships - Disability/BIPOC representation - DAVID BOWIE?!?!

A photo that reads: The Pitch! It’s the end of a hot Iowan summer, and twenty-four-year-old Matilda West is gearing up for her sophomore year of college at Oak Ridge University. A scholarship student, she is swayed by the suggestion of her favorite professor to join a study group he’s created for his Classical Mythology course. The students in the group adopt her quickly, but Matilda’s past has made her wary and anxious of new people and their intentions. When she finds herself drawn toward two of the people in the group, including an unexplainable feeling like she’s met one of them before, Matilda is thrown in the middle of a situation she couldn’t have seen coming. Weird dreams and the fact that her life might not be what she thought it was force Matilda to question whether her fate was already decided, or if someone else is pulling the strings… How does one juggle school work, healing trauma, finding love, and supporting a diverse community, while also fighting for their fate and the rest of the world?

A photo that reads: For Fans of: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Maggie Stiefvater Richelle Mead Laurell K Hamilton Adults over the age of 18 whp enjoy a world sprinkled with mythology and More, and fantasy rooted in reality. Reader who enjoy diverse, complex characters, especially LGBTQIA+ characters, those with disabilities, and those deailing with PTSD and trauma in an honest and real way. Romance Readers who enjoy things like friends to loves, enemies to friends, slow burn, found family, angst with a happy ending, and polyamory. Playlist: Have I Found My Home by Paden What A Good Woman Does by Joy Williams Dear Happy by Gabrielle Aplin Breathe Me by Sia Stuck In My Head by Blue Eyes Silence by Marshmello & Khalid The World We Made by Ruelle Like That by JP Saxe Safe Place by RuthAnne Hurts Like Hell by Fleurie & Tommee Profitt Somebody Loved by The Weepies For You by Angus & Julia Stone Past Life by Morgan St Jean Atlas: Heart by Sleeping At Last

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫

NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES

🌹Romance/Romantasy
👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory
❤️‍🔥Slow Burn
👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family
⚖️Gods & Goddesses
🎵Music!
♿Diversity
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+
💖Soul Mates
✨Magical Realism
Agent's guide included 📖

#WSPit #WSPitQ #WSPitS #A #F #R #bipoc #spec #magicalrealism

What I love most about Dissonance is its magic system rooted in Freudian and Jungian psychology—where suppression, gaslighting, projection, etc. manifest as literal, tangible phenomena.

Well but think, the part of you that is so good at imagining the uncertain terror down there is also the part responsible for dreaming stories up!

I never knew about this connection between publishing and the tariffs… very interesting! Thanks for writing :)

Oh good, you’re watching in reverse so it gets better and better.

Well look what just came in the mail @mitpress.bsky.social 🧠🤖🦠

Curious about AI's impact on the future of humanity? Will you be in Austin, TX on March 25? Join me, @nikitanamjoshi.bsky.social, and The Austin Salon for evening of learning, drinks and discussion.

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I would love a thread on the most hackneyed openings 😍

The Creative Nest How decorating work spaces supports art making

A growing body of evidence suggests that decorating our spaces may influence our creativity in subtle ways, acting as a kind of emotional support, regulating our mental states so we can do our best work. 🧪

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.

We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

And me? I have a giant Roman water garden mural, some historical scientific prints, Renaissance art, a Bluetooth typewriter, an email reply from one of my favorite authors (thanks @levgrossman.bsky.social!) and, most critically, a black cat. 🐈‍⬛

Brandon Sanderson had a fantasy writing lair built 30 feet underground in Utah.

Thomas Edison slept in his glamorous multi-story-library-office so often that his wife had a cot brought in.

Charles Dickens was an interior design enthusiast who once wrote a 6,000-word essay on wallpaper. When his pet raven died, he had it taxidermied and hung above his desk. So attached was he to his workspace that when he traveled, he brought his portable rosewood writing desk with him.

Ray Bradbury wrote surrounded by toys, a canopy of masks, a six-foot Bullwinkle stuffed animal and a jar with a fake human head in it.

Freud's office in London

Freud's office in London

Sigmund Freud cluttered his office was ancient artifacts, including over two thousand Greco-Roman statutes, busts, Neolithic tools, Sumerian seals, Egyptian mummy bandages and even a collection of penis amulets. He was so in love with his statues he even took some on holiday with him.

The Creative Nest How decorating work spaces supports art making

I’m obsessive about my office. I want my workspace to inspire me, to act as a creative echo chamber for my inner musings. For @nautil.us, I wrote about the science behind why we curate our creative nests. In celebration, here are some of my favorite famous offices. 🧵

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Agreed, this was an incredible show!

Boltzmann Brains are one of the most mind-boggling and influential paradoxes I ever encountered. Who better to explain them than @mariapopova.bsky.social ?

Congrats Ben!